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"Pingstväckelsens verklige apologet" : G. E. Söderholms apologetiska skriftställande 1920-1940. Kyrkohistorisk fältkamp och religiöst historiebruk inom den tidiga svenska pingströrelsen

Söderholm, Oscar LU (2020) In Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift 120. p.89-120
Abstract
This article is a study of G. E. Söderholm as apologetic writer of the early Swedish Pentecostal movement during the period 1920-1940. It investigates how Söderholm through the symbolic capital his status as a former vicar in the Swedish state church generated and through the use of historical writing defended the Pentecostal movement from polemic academic scholarship about the movement and from competing Christian denominations. Söderholm used historical figures, in particular Martin Luther and the Anabaptist leader Balthazar Hubmaier, as representatives of Pentecostalism, thereby criticizing the ”Lutheran” state church and claiming historical continuity with the Anabaptists. He also compared the movement with the earliest church,... (More)
This article is a study of G. E. Söderholm as apologetic writer of the early Swedish Pentecostal movement during the period 1920-1940. It investigates how Söderholm through the symbolic capital his status as a former vicar in the Swedish state church generated and through the use of historical writing defended the Pentecostal movement from polemic academic scholarship about the movement and from competing Christian denominations. Söderholm used historical figures, in particular Martin Luther and the Anabaptist leader Balthazar Hubmaier, as representatives of Pentecostalism, thereby criticizing the ”Lutheran” state church and claiming historical continuity with the Anabaptists. He also compared the movement with the earliest church, claiming it as a continuation of it. He was influential in the establishment of a Pentecostal memory community by turning communicative memory into cultural, and by deciding which aspects of the movement's history to include in his grand narrative of the Swedish Pentecostal revival. (Less)
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Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift
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Svenska kyrkohistoriska föreningen
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0085-2619
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  title        = {{"Pingstväckelsens verklige apologet" : G. E. Söderholms apologetiska skriftställande 1920-1940. Kyrkohistorisk fältkamp och religiöst historiebruk inom den tidiga svenska pingströrelsen}},
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